as Ash made his way through the chaos on board of the ferry, he instructed lugia and metacross to help any passenger they could find.

"me-meta"

"as you wish, my liege. but what about you, and the child?"

Ash thought for a bit, and pulled another cherish ball out.

"come-on out, latias!"

in a bright flash, the red eon pokemon appeared with a very worried look on her face. "la? tas-lati?"

Ash grinned at the antics of his pokemon, and instructed her to take leaf to safety. he told her the whereabouts of Cynthia, and that he will arrive shortly after.

"I'm gonna look for Roxie, Flannery and Anabel. they might need my help, ok?" the three psychics nodded, and took off in seperate directions.

Ash ran through the separate fires, and used his aura to pinpoint the locations of his traveling partners. the three of them were surrounded by eight other presences. as he broke through the door that separated them, he saw that four people with the same outfits as the twins, surrounded the girls.

"HOLD IT! ONE MORE STEP, AND THE CHICKS GET FRIED!" as if the man wanted to put force befind his words, he instructed his ursaring to charge a hyper beam. the other three people did the same with their raichu, druddigon and bibarel.

Ash put his hands up, and looked dead-serious.

"can't we discuss this like normal people? or do we have to be violent?"

the man scoffed and asked if he could do anything in his position.

"I can't..."

Ash suddenly grinned like a madman.

"...but he can!"

as if on cue, Ash's darkrai floated through the roof, and shot a dark pulse at the four pokemon. the force behind it caused them to lose their focus, and the hyper beams exploded, knocking them all out at the same time.

Ash coated his arms in aura energy, and punched the first one out cold. the other three tried to jump Ash at the same time, but got intercepted by another dark pulse by darkrai.

"no...one...touches...my family..." he growled. Ash grinned and patted him on the head.

"thanks darkrai. appreciate it."

the dark legendary nodded, and glanced over to the three girls. "are you... allright?" the girls nodded in unison, and Roxie jumped at Ash with sparkling eyes.

"Ash! WHEN THE FUCK DID YOU CATCH A LEGENDARY POKEMON?! THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL!" she grabbed his hands, and looked up at him with puppy-eyes. the rest sweatdropped.

suddenly the sound of an explosion filled the room. the ship started rocking. Ash ran out of the room, and saw that someone blew a hole into the ship's side. he also noticed a small boat speeding away from them. the emblem on the side of the small boat resembled a red V with a set of gears. overtaken by anger, he focused his aura between his hands. a small spherical shape of energy collected between his fingers, and he threw the sphere with all his might. the sphere connected with the rear of the small boat, causing the boat to explode. the person inside quickly jumped into the water, only to be scooped up by a VERY angry lugia.

"look what the cat dragged in. WRONG TERRITORY BUDDY" he roared, forgetting his normal gentlemanlike tone of speech and with his tail he flung the man straight into the wall of the ferry with a sickening crack. as raised both his arms into the air, and yelled "HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES! GOOOOAAAALLLLL!" on top of his lungs. earning a few chuckles from lugia, the girls and darkrai.

afterwards, Ash scanned the ship again. except for the seven people that he knocked out, it was completely empty. metacross, darkrai and lugia gathered in front of the rest, and Ash recalled his legendaries.

"metacross, do you think you have enough energy left to teleport all of us to latias' location?"

the spider-like golem thought for a little while, and nodded. his eyes started glowing, and in a flash they all stood in a small patch of forest. latias noticed Ash, and signaled him to come closer. they saw that the little girl was still unconcious, and metacross was drained because of the constant teleporting.

"Anabel, do any of your pokemon know how to pinpoint teleport?" the girl nodded.

"espeon does, but she can't teleport as many people as metacross... sorry."

Ash smiled. and he told the girls he had to make a call. he sent salamence, dragonite and bearctic over to the captured void members to keep a eye on them.

conversation:

"hey C.C? it's me Ash..."

"hello sir... why did you call me on such an ungodly hour?"

"because the ferry got attacked, metacross got drained and none of my other pokemon know how to pinpoint teleport."

"why don't you just ask Anabel to teleport the four of you?"

"because we have seven suspects in custody, and one little girl who has yet to regain conciousness. espeon can't handle that kind of pressure yet."

"(sigh...) fine. just send me the co-ordinates, and I'll be there in a few minutes."

"C.C..."

"yes Ash?"

"have I mentioned that I love you?"

"I already agreed. you can stop kissing my ass."

"kay..."

conversation end.

after the group waited for a few minutes, a flash appeared, and two figures became visible. a young woman with light green hair that flowed along her back, dressed into a white dress and a gardevoir stepped out of the light.

the woman glanced over to the group, and threw another pokeball into the air. an alakazam emerged.

"gardevoir, alakazam. teleport to the viridian police center please." without another word, the entire group vanished into thin air, and re-emerged in front of the police center. alakazam used his psychic to levitate the group inside.

"it was fun and all, but I'm heading back to bed. I haven't even gotten out of my sleepwear yet."

Ash waved her goodbye, and picked the girl up. he glanced to Roxie, Flannery and Anabel.

"I guess we gotta crash at Cynthia's tonight..."

they walked for about twenty minutes until they arrived at the viridian grand hotel. the group went inside, and the bellboy looked at the clock.

"excuse me? it's two in the morning. we don't-"

"my name's Ash ketchum. I need to speak with Cynthia shirona." Ash interrupted.

the bellboy raised an eyebrow at the rude young man.

"miss Cynthia is probably asleep right now. please try again tomorro-"

Ash grabbed the bellboy by the front of his jacket, glared and growled.

"I don't have fucking time for fucking games... call. Cynthia. NOW!" his eye glowed bright blue, intimidating the bellboy.

"o-o-of c-c-course sir... r-right away sir." he quickly made the call.

"miss shirona? yes I know it's late but- yes ma'am. no ma'am. a certain Ash ketchum is here to see you. yes. eyepatch? yes. he has company of four girls. yes four. okay I'll tell them."

the man hung up, and told Ash to go to the top suite. the group took the elevator, and knocked at the door. a very angry Cynthia opened the door.

"Ash ketchum. it's two in the fucking morning. there had better been a bloody murder or else there will be." she hissed

Ash's face became serious, and walked past her. so did the other three.

"we were attacked. this girl's father is dead, and we've discovered yet another lunatic organisation. is that enough reason?"

Cynthia closed the door, and sat down to listen to the story. when he finished, she calmed down, and had a similar expression as Ash's.

"I've never really heard of void... but this CANNOT be good..."